604 THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 



War deem either advisable. In this case I have thought it best 

 not to ask for written statements of the surviving members of 

 the party for appendices to this report, lest I might seem to be 

 tampering with them. I have not asked, since our rescue, June 

 22, whether their opinions concurring in my action have changed 

 or not, leaving such questions to your action, if deemed requisite. 

 I naturally regret thnt circumstances imposed such a terrible 

 responsibility upon me, but I am conscious I should have failed 

 in my duty to the rest of my party had I had not acted promptly 

 and summarily. 



(Signed) A. W. GKEELY. 



DEATH PY STARVATION. 



IT was a terrible thing to order the execution of a comrade 

 who had borne with them the sufferings of an arctic winter with- 

 out food or shelter, but the party could not allow their sympa- 

 thies to affect justice at the expense of their o\vn lives. The 

 death of Henry was an inexorable necessity. 



Starvation and cold had destroyed several of the party before 

 Henry was executed, and after January 1, 1884, the death rate 

 was appalling. Seventeen of the original twenty-five persons 

 composing the expedition perished of starvation, the names of 

 the dead recovered, with date of death, being as follows : 



Sergeant Cross, January 1, 1884: "Wedenck, an Esquimau, 

 April 5th ; Sergeant Linn, April 6th ; Lieutenant Lockwood, 

 April 9th; Sergeant Jewell, April 12th; Private Ellis, May 

 19th ; Sergeant Ralston, May 23d ; Private Whistler, May 

 24th ; Sergeant Israel r May 27th : Private Henry, June 6th ; 

 and Private Schneider, June 18th. The names of the dead 

 buried in the ice-foot, with the date of death (bodies not 

 recovered), are as follows: Sergeant Rice, April 6, 1884; 

 Private Bender, Juue 6th ; Acting Assistant Sergeant Pavy, June 

 6th ; and Sergeant Gardiner, June 12th. 



Jans Edwards, one of Greely's faithful Esquimaux, while try- 

 ing to harpoon a seal, broke through some newly formed ice on 

 April 18th and was drowned. In the list of fatalities appears the 

 )sme of Lieutenant Lockwood, to whose energies and ambitious 



